Understanding Transnational Social Movements As Mimicking Alpine Formation

The European Union as a supranational political arena allows social movements to participate in (democratic) governance apart from the national level. Yet, the EU arena is constantly changing and therefore social movements with usually limited resources need to cope with institutional changes and fragile access possibilities. With this in mind I ask: How responsive is the European Commission to gendered mobilizations and/or to social movements organized around different grounds of discrimination? To what degree apply social movements intersectional approaches and plays gender equality a role in social movements not explicitly focusing on gender? Including intersectionality as a probable mobilization aspect of different equality movements (=social movements focusing on different grounds of inequalities) might help to better understand the way policy networks are set up and maintained on a supranational level. When resources are limited and movements need to decide which connections to promote and sustain, it may matter where their topics overlap and where they can join forces to lobby for the same issue from different perspectives, yet the same interest. As a benefit, it becomes easier to identify similarities and differences of, for instance, mobilization strategies.